VIDEO: Police, family try to piece together motive in fatal Randolph shooting

Jack Encarnacao

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Nov 28, 2011 at 12:01 AMNov 28, 2011 at 3:56 AM

Investigators worked throughout the night Saturday and Sunday to piece together what happened in the moments before Kyle McManus, a smiley Randolph High School graduate, was shot in the chest around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday

The last time Anthony McManus heard from his brother Kyle, he was planning to make a quick stop at home for cigarettes and then head back out for the night.

McManus said can’t fathom how the pit stop could lead to his 21-year-old brother being shot dead in front of the family home on quiet Wales Avenue.

“He came in, he made it upstairs, he made it outside,” Anthony McManus, 24, said of his brother’s final moments, as he stood teary-eyed at the scene Sunday. “Somebody was trying to think if it was drug-related, or a robbery or anything like that. It doesn’t matter. If Kyle was getting held up like that, he’d have just given it to them. They didn’t give him a chance.”

Investigators worked throughout the night Saturday and into Sunday evening to piece together what happened in the moments before Kyle McManus, a Randolph High School graduate, was shot in the chest around 11:30 p.m. Saturday. He was found wounded in the street, and was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital.

Six hours after the shooting, police arrested Allison Deshowitz, 19, of Stoughton and three Brockton residents – Devonte Thames and Brian Moulton, both 18, and 17-year-old Nathan Long – in Brockton. All four were scheduled to be arraigned on murder charges today in Quincy District Court.

Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey said one of the defendants knew McManus, though he wouldn’t specify which one.

He said several motives were being explored, including the possibility that the shooting was drug-related. The shooting was thought to be preceded by a verbal exchange, he said.

Morrissey and Randolph Police Chief William Pace said the shooting took place on a street considered quiet in a town that has had issues with gun violence and gang activity in recent years.

“Wales Avenue is a terrific neighborhood,” Morrissey said. “This is something we think was an isolated incident. We are following up on the potential of some drug involvement.”

Witnesses described a Jeep leaving the scene of the shooting, and police were able to trace the vehicle an address in Brockton, Morrissey said. He said all four suspects were found there and arrested.

Police swarmed the home at 27 Breer Circle in Brockton on Sunday. Police said a search warrant was executed there in connection with the Randolph investigation.

The single-family home at the address is owned by Patricia Lugo, according to city records. A black Jeep parked in a garage was towed from the home. Neighbors said the Jeep is known as a vehicle that Nathan Lugo drives, and that it is rarely parked in the garage.

Kyle McManus was the youngest of three boys. Friends gathered on the back porch of his home Sunday to grieve.

“You couldn’t find a picture of him where he wasn’t smiling or putting on some kind of a stupid face,” Anthony McManus said of his brother. “He just liked hanging out with his friends and his family.”

Pace said Randolph police had some “very minor involvement” with McManus when he was a juvenile several years ago, but nothing recently.

In December 2010, a Quincy District Court judge continued without a finding a charge against McManus for wanton destruction of property worth more than $250.

McManus had been charged that April with damaging property that belonged to the Randolph School Department.

Stoughton police charged Allison Deshowitz in November of 2009 with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and assault and battery on a police officer.

The slaying was the first in Randolph since July 2010, when Kareneetha Sanders, 28, was stabbed to death at Flora’s Braiding and Beauty Supply in Randolph Square. The owner of the business, Edward Aduayi of Abington, is awaiting trial for the murder.

Maria Papadopolous, a reporter with The Enterprise of Brockton, contributed to this report. Jack Encarnacao may be reached at jencarnacao@ledger.com.

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